Burke Cemetery

Date 2008/11/20 13:26:23 | Topic: Cemeteries

Located at Charles Fork, Smithfield District, Roane County, West Virginia

Submitted by Larry R. Hall .... a great-great grandson of Robert Peter Burke + Sarah Florence Amiss(Amos).

In center of cemetery one tall stone with inscriptions:

(Top of stone) R. P. Burke .... 2-20-1827 / 2-16-1901 - Age 74

(Bottom of stone) Sarah F. .... 12-12-1827 / 3-27-1869 - Age 42

(To right of center stone) Roberta Burke Hershman .... 1863 - 1929

(To left of center stone) Elton Amos Burke .. B. 1837 - D. 1908 .. Age 71


Other grave markers:

H. C. Burke .... 1887 - 1905 .... Age 18

Luly Burke ....Wife of Wm. Kincaid .... 1859 - 1915

Ethel Burke .... 1892 - 1903 .... Age 11

Ulva Burke .... 1899 - 1903 .... Age 4

J. B. Burke .... 1864 - 1905 .... Age 41

America B. Walker Burke .... 1867 - 1931

(James B. and his three children died in the typhoid epidemic.)





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